Conducting, Producing & Recording
Composing, Arranging & Orchestration | Fee Schedule
Derek Williams Studio (Edinburgh CBD)
Derek Williams is available as:
- Composer, arranger, orchestrator
- Conductor for orchestral and choral recording sessions and live performances
- Record producer for recording sessions demos, albums, film, television
- Recording engineer for works recorded at Derek Williams private studio
- Pianist/keyboardist for sessions and live performance
For samples of Derek Williams' work please visit the Portfolio

Equipment list | Software | Back to top
Computers & Accessories (Back to list)
Desktops |
Apple |
Mac Pro |
3GHz Intel Quad Core with 16GB RAM and Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 512MB dual video card. |
Mac G4 |
800MHz Dual Core for Mac OS 9 applications |
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iMac G4 * |
800MHz for Office and Mac OS 9 applications |
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Mac Plus * |
Server for Kurzweil K250 |
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Windows |
Asus |
P6T WS PRO Intel X58 i7 930 Quad Core 2.8GHz 6.4GT/s processor VSL server with 12GB RAM and MOTU PCI-424 audio card, 3x1TB+2x500GB HDs |
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Medion |
Pentium 4 3GHz Pentium 4 Linux Server with 2.5GB RAM |
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Notebook |
Apple |
Macbook Pro |
17" 2.33GHz Dual Core laptop, 3GB RAM; 500GB 7200RPM HD; PCI SCSI slot |
Tablet |
iPad 3 |
iOS Version 5 |
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Mobile |
iPhone 4 |
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Monitors |
Apple |
2 x Cinema Displays |
30" LCD flat panel monitors |
Acer |
AL1916W |
19” LCD flat panel monitor |
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Network |
Apple |
Airport Extreme |
Hardware base station |
Netgear |
GS108 |
Gigabit switch 8 port Ethernet 1000 BaseT star hub with Cat 6 cabling |
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Printers |
HP |
LaserJet 5000N * |
A3 laser printer with 4 output trays |
Canon |
i80 |
Portable battery USB colour inkjet A4 printer |
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+ Scanners |
HP |
Deskjet F380 |
A4 inkjet printer/scanner |
Canon |
N1240U |
Canoscan - A4 scanner |
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Webcam |
Logitech |
9000 Pro |
USB webcam |
USB |
Konig |
3 x CMP-USB2HUB15 |
7 port hubs |
Hard drives |
LaCie |
2 x Big Disk Extreme Plus |
2TB external Firewire disk drives |
Hard Disk * |
250GB external Firewire disk drive |
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CD Burners |
Que ! Fire |
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12x Firewire recordable rewritable external CD burner |
Yamaha |
4260 * |
4x SCSI recordable rewritable external CD burner |
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Floppy |
Imation |
D353FUE |
USB external floppy disk drive |
Teac |
FD-05PUB |
USB external floppy disk drive |
Instruments (Back to list)
Keyboards |
Roland |
RD-300X |
88 note weighted keyboard |
JX-8P * |
61 note keyboard analog synthesiser |
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M-Audio |
ProKeys Sono 88 |
88 note weighted keyboard |
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Korg |
Kontrol 49 * |
MIDI controllers |
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Nanopad |
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Nanokeys |
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Kurzweil |
K250 * |
Keyboard digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D, SW900 block cartridge. & SCSI hard disk interface. |
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Racks |
K250R * |
Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D |
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K2500R |
Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with 32 Meg RAM, 2GB HD with Contemporary ROM & Orchestral ROM & extended PRAM |
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Korg |
M3R |
Synthesiser unit |
Studio Gear (Back to list)
Mixer |
Behringer |
DDX3216 |
Automated 24 bit 32 channel digital mixing console with dual ADAT option |
Speakers |
Yamaha |
2 x NS20 |
3 way 8" studio monitors |
ESI uniK |
2 x 05 |
2 way 5" studio monitors |
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2 x 04 |
2 way 4" studio monitors |
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Headphones |
Beyer |
DT250 Dynamic |
Stereo headphones |
Controllers |
Tascam |
US-224 |
Control surface, audio 2xin 2xout, MIDI I/O, 4ch mixer |
Contour |
Shuttle Pro2 |
USB transport controller |
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Shuttle Xpress |
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Wacom |
Intuos3 PTZ-630 |
A5 USB graphics tablet |
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Audio |
MOTU |
2 x 2048 Mk 3 |
24 channel PCI audio interfaces |
2 x PCI-424 |
24 bit audio cards |
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MIDI |
2 x MIDI TimePieces AV |
8 port I/O USB SMPTE/MIDI/wordclock interfaces |
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FastLane |
2 port I/O USB MIDI interface |
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ESi |
2 x M8U-XL |
8 port I/O USB MIDI interfaces |
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Microphones |
Beyer |
2 x M500N(C) |
Dynamic microphones with stands |
Shure |
3 x SHR-16AM |
Condenser microphones with stands |
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Reverb |
Yamaha |
SPX90 |
Reverberation unit |
Compressor |
Akai |
70C* |
Monophonic compressor |
Patch bay |
Behringer |
Ultrapatch Pro PX2000 |
48 point multifunctional patch bay |
* Items marked '*' are stored in Australia
Software | Equipment list | Back to top
- Operating Systems
- Music Sequencers, MIDI & Audio DAW’s
- Scorewriters
- Sample Players, Sound Libraries, Rewire
- Other Plugins
- Transcription
- Office
- Video
Operating Systems (Back to list)
Apple |
Macintosh |
Version 10.7 'Lion' (Intel Pro desktop and laptop)
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Version 9.2 (G4 and iMac desktop) |
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Version 8 (MacPlus Kurzweil K250 server) |
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iPad 3 |
iOS Version 5 |
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iPhone 4 |
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Microsoft |
Windows |
Version 7 (64bit VE/VI Pro server) |
Linux |
Linux |
Version 2.6 (32 bit) development server |
Music Sequencers, MIDI & Audio DAW Applications (Back to list)
Steinberg |
Cubase |
Version 6 |
MOTU |
Digital Performer |
Version 6 |
Unisyn |
Version 2.1 - MIDI interface manager and patch librarian |
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Cycling ‘74 |
Max6 + Gen |
music, sound, video and 3D interactive graphical media programming environment |
Scorewriters (Back to list)
Avid |
Sibelius |
Version 7 |
Makemusic |
Finale |
Version 2011 |
MOTU |
Composers’ Mosaic |
Version 1.58 |
Sample Players, Sound Libraries & Rewire (Back to list)
Vienna Symphonic Library |
VE Pro |
Mixing and Host Software exclusively for Vienna Instruments |
VI Pro |
Virtual instruments player for Vienna Instruments |
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VSL Symphonic Cube |
Complete Orchestral Libraries: Solo Strings 1&2, Chamber Strings1&2, Orchestral Strings 1&2, Appassionata Strings 1&2, Harps, Woodwinds 1&2, Saxophones, Brass 1&2, Vienna Dimension Brass, Fanfare Trumpets, Trumpet (Bb), Flugelhorn, Percussion, Vienna Choir |
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VSL Orchestral Cube Pro |
For GigaStudio 4 and G-Player – complete libraries for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion |
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Native Instruments |
Kontakt |
Version 5 (64 bit) |
Garritan |
Personal Orchestra |
Version 4 – sample player for SIbelius |
Jazz & Big Band |
Version 3 – sample player for SIbelius |
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MOTU |
MachFive |
Version 3 |
MSI |
Symphonic Instruments sample player |
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Steinberg |
Halion |
Version 3 |
Propellerheads |
Reason |
Version 6 - Rewire |
Tascam |
Gigastudio |
Version 4 (64 bit) – on standalone Windows server |
Soundlib |
G-Player |
Version 1.2 - GigaStudio sample player |
Other Plugins (Back to list)
Celemony |
Melodyne |
Version 2 DNA Editor |
Antares |
Auto-Tune |
Version 7 - automatic pitch correction plugin |
Waves |
Gold Bundle |
Version 8 - TrueVerb, MaxBass, Renaissance EQ and Compressor, Stereo Imager, UltraMaximizer, C1, C4, L1, PAZ. Audio Track, Supertap, UltraPitch plugins |
Transcription (Back to list)
Neuratron |
PhotoScore Ultimate |
Version 7 – score recognition and transcription |
Audio Score Ultimate |
Version 7 – audio>MIDI transcription |
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Irislink |
Readiris Pro |
Version 12 – text scanning and transcription |
Myriad |
PDFtoMusic |
OCR score reader |
Nuance |
Dragon Naturally Speaking |
Version 11, Premium Edition (Windows), voice recognition and transcription
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Dragon Dictate |
Version 2 (Macintosh), voice recognition and transcription |
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Roxio |
Toast Titanium |
Version 11 – CD, DVD, Blu-ray and web video and audio capturing, copying, converting, sharing, disk burning |
Office (Back to list)
Microsoft |
Office (Mac) |
Version 2011 |
Office (Windows) |
Version 2010 |
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Apple |
iWork |
Version ‘09 |
Video (Back to list)
Apple |
iLife |
Version ‘11 |

